Item 3. Source and Amount of Funds or Other Consideration
The information set forth in Item 4 of this Amendment No. 2 is hereby incorporated by reference.
Item 4. Purpose of Transaction
Item 4 of the Schedule 13D is hereby supplemented as follows:
On March 3, 2023, PVII (prior to the Arrangement described below) and Brookfield Reinsurance entered into an exchange agreement, pursuant to which PVII sold and transferred to Brookfield Reinsurance, and Brookfield Reinsurance purchased and received from PVII, 915,000 Class A Shares, in exchange for the issuance by Brookfield Reinsurance of 915,000 Class A Exchangeable Shares of Brookfield Reinsurance to PVII on a private placement basis. The Class A Exchangeable Shares are exchangeable into Class A Shares on a one-for-one basis.
On October 11, 2023, Brookfield Reinsurance commenced an offer (the “Offer”) to exchange up to 40,000,000 Class A Shares of Brookfield for newly-issued Class A-1 Exchangeable Shares of Brookfield Reinsurance, which are (i) exchangeable into Class A Shares and (ii) convertible into Class A Exchangeable Shares of Brookfield Reinsurance, in each case on a one-for-one basis. The Offer expired on November 13, 2023 and closed on November 16, 2023. PVII (prior to the Arrangement described below) and one of its controlled affiliates tendered an aggregate of 14,111,461 Class A Shares to the Offer and received in the aggregate 14,111,461 Class A-1 Exchangeable Shares in exchange for such tendered Class A Shares upon closing of the Offer.
On November 24, 2023, PVII, Partners Value Investments LP, PVI Management Trust and Partners Limited completed a plan of arrangement pursuant to the Business Corporations Act (Ontario) (the “Arrangement”) in order to reorganize the affairs of PVII. The principal objectives of the Arrangement were to simplify the ownership of PVII and increase the liquidity of PVI LP’s securities. On November 27, 2023, among other things, through a series of steps in the Arrangement, an aggregate of 706,753 Class A Exchangeable Shares and 6,793,247 Class A-1 Exchangeable Shares were distributed to equity holders of PVI LP.
On November 28, 2023, PVII converted 500,000 Class A-1 Exchangeable Shares into 500,000 Class A Exchangeable Shares.
Item 5. Interest in Securities of the Issuer
Item 5(a)-(c) of the Schedule 13D are hereby amended and restated as follows:
(a)-(b) | PVI LP is the beneficial owner of 128,566,815 Class A Shares over which PVI LP has shared voting and dispositive power through its subsidiaries PVII, which beneficially owns 8,955,366 Class A Shares directly and through controlled affiliates, and PV Split, which beneficially owns 119,611,449 Class A Shares. The foregoing amounts include 723,411 Class A Exchangeable Shares and 6,874,521 Class A-1 Exchangeable Shares of Brookfield Reinsurance that may be exchanged into Class A Shares on a one-for-one basis that are beneficially owned by PVII directly and through controlled affiliates. Such Class A Shares beneficially owned by PVI LP constitute approximately 8.2% of the issued and outstanding Class A Shares based on 1,558,523,533 Class A Shares outstanding as of September 30, 2023. |
PV Split is the beneficial owner of 119,611,449 Class A Shares, all of which PV Split has shared voting and dispositive power with PVI LP. In the aggregate, such Class A Shares beneficially owned by PV Split constitute approximately 7.7% of the issued and outstanding Class A Shares based on 1,558,523,533 Class A Shares outstanding as of September 30, 2023.
PVII is the beneficial owner of 128,566,815 Class A Shares, all of which PVII has shared voting and dispositive power with PVI LP. The foregoing amounts include 723,411 Class A Exchangeable Shares and 6,874,521 Class A-1 Exchangeable Shares of Brookfield Reinsurance that may be exchanged into Class A Shares on a one-for-one basis that are beneficially owned by PVII directly and through controlled affiliates. In the aggregate, such Class A Shares beneficially owned by PVII constitute approximately 8.2% of the issued and outstanding Class A Shares based on 1,558,523,533 Class A Shares outstanding as of September 30, 2023.